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The number of significant figures in the numbers $4.8000 \times 10^{4}$ and $48000.50$ are respectively
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5 and 7
The number of significant figures in $4.8000 \times 10^{4}$ is 5 (zeros on right after decimal are counted while zeros in powers of 10 are not counted).
The number of significant figures in $48000.50$ is 7 (all the zeros between two non-zero digits are significant).
The number of significant figures in $48000.50$ is 7 (all the zeros between two non-zero digits are significant).
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